Apparatus for holding open mouths of sacks.



PatentedMay 8, |900.

No. 649,3I5.

` A. KLEssE & E. mmm.` APPARATUS FDR HOLDING OPEN MUUTHS 0F SACKS.

(Application led Hay 24, 189B.)

(No Nudel.)

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UNrrsD STATES 'PATENT Oi-prong AUGUST KLESSE, OF EOKERSDORF, AND ERNST BHM, OF KLEIN MIlLTEN,

` Y GERMANY.

APPARATUS FOR HOLDING PN MUTHS OF SACKS.

SPECIFICATON forming part Of LetteS Pat/6111i N0. 649,315, dated May' 8, 1900.

Application tiled May 24, 1898.' Serial No. 681,579. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: two or more openings f, and the opposite end Be it known that we, AUGUST KLESSE, reis provided with a single opening g, which 5o siding at Eckersdorf, and ERNST BHM, relatter opening may be caused to register with siding at Klein Mhlten, in the Kingdom of either of the other openings when the two ends 5 Prussia, Germany, subjects of the King of of the ring are brought together and over- Prussia, have invented certain new and uselapped; To the inner side of the ring, at the ful Improvements in Apparatus for Holding end having the single opening, is pivoted a 55 Open the Months of Sacks, (for which We have hand-lever 7L, the short end of which carries applied for patents in England, dated April a lug or projection t', adapted to pass through 1o 25, 1898, No. 9,479; in France, dated April 27, the said single opening g in one end of the 1898, and in Belgium, dated April 27, 1898,) split ring and enter either one of the openof which the following is a specification. ings f in the opposite end of the ring to hold 6o This invention relates to a device for holdthe said ring in a contracted condition when ing open the mouth ends of sacks While the ends are overlapped, as clearly shown in t5 the latter are being lled; and it consists of Fig. 2 of the drawings. A spring j acts by a column or stand provided with afoot or feet pressure to normally hold the lug or projecupon which the column or stand is adjustably tion t'. in engagement with the single opening 65 mounted, an expansible bag-supporting split g'. Supposing that the expansible split ring ringhavinga series of depending pins or arms c is in its contracted condition, as shown in zo which are arranged to enter the mouth end Fig. 2, it will be seen that by pressing the of the bag to hold the latter op'en, and in long end of the lever 7L toward the ring the lug means for holding the said expansible split or projection t' will be drawn from its open; 7o ring in a contracted condition to reduce the ing f in the overlapping end of the ring, and size or diameter thereof, whereby the bag may the two ends of the latter being thus freed the z5 be more readily placed about the ring and ring will immediately expand, whereby the the arms which depend therefrom. diameter thereof will be increased, as clearly The invention is illustrated in the accomshown in Fig. 4r. 75 panying drawings, in which- The ring is provided around its circumfer- Figure l is a side elevation of our complete ence with a plurality of depending arms or 3o device, showing a bag supported thereby; pins 7c, which are caused to freely enter the Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the bag-supportopen mouth of the bag when the ring is coning ring, shown as contracted ready to retracted, and When the said ring is allowed to 8o ceive a bag. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the expand, as above described, it will be seen same, and Fig. 4C is a top plan view of the that the said depending arms will immedi- 3 5 split ring in its expanded position. ately spread or spring outward into contact Referring now to the drawings, the referwith the bag and support the latter from ence-letteradesignatesasuitable stand orcol- Within with its` mouth wide open ready for 85 umn of any preferred cross=sectional shape and filling. provided at its lower end with feet b. In or- What we claim, and desire to secure by Let- 4o der to support the bag and hold the mouth end ters Patent, is^

thereof open, we provide an expansible split A device for holding open the mouth end ring c, which is provided with an eye or loop of a sack, consisting of an expansible split 9o d, through which the column or stand d freely ring the ends of which may be brought topasses and upon which said ring may be supgether and overlapped, one of such ends be- 45 ported atanydesired elevation,the samebeing ing provided with a single opening and the rmly held to thesaid columnin its adjusted other end with a plurality of openings, bagpositionbymcansofasuitable clamping-'screw supporting-arms depending from said ring, 95 e. One end of the split ring is provided with and a spring-actuated lever pivotally mount- In testimony whereof We have hereunto set ed on the inner face of the ring adjacent to our hands in the presence ofl two Witnesses. 1o

the single opening therein and provided at one end with a. projection adapted to pass through the said single opening in one end of TP 5 the ring and enter one of the openings in the J other end of the ring whenthe two ends of the p Vitnesses:

latter are overlapped to hold the ring in a contracted position, substantially as described.A

HEINRCH BHM, HERMANN BARTsoH. 

